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title: Which person did the Black Rogue's wife formally designate as the su… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which person did the Black Rogue's wife formally designate as the superior practitioner of the thieving art? Exam question 4 of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Which person did the Black Rogue's wife formally designate as the superior practitioner of the thieving art?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** do, designate, thieve · **To what, where:** wife

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1277-pg3454-part2/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:e4:1
# text = Which person did the Black Rogue's wife formally designate as the superior practitioner of the thieving art?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	designate	designate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	practitioner	practitioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which person | the Black Rogue's wife |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 2 | **designate** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the superior practitioner of the thieving art; formally *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as practitioner=Attribute |
| 3 | **thieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the Shifty Lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:e4:o1:1
# text = the Shifty Lad
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the young lad who fooled his own mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:e4:o2:1
# text = the young lad who fooled his own mother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fooled	fool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | past | the young lad | his own mother |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:e4:o3:1
# text = the boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the farmer's man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:e4:o4:1
# text = the farmer's man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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